You’re Wrong About | Podcast Review

There’s a specific feeling You’re Wrong About is built to produce, and it happens almost every episode: the slow, slightly uncomfortable realization that a story you’d absorbed as settled fact — usually through decades of pop culture osmosis rather than anything you actually researched yourself — was considerably messier, and often considerably less fair to […]

Hardcore History | Podcast Review

Most history podcasts are built around episodes. Hardcore History is built around expeditions, and the distinction matters more than it sounds like it should. A single installment can run four, five, sometimes six hours, released on a schedule best described as “whenever it’s actually ready,” and covering a subject with a depth and narrative sweep […]

Stuff You Should Know | Podcast Review

Radiolab is one of those shows that made a whole generation of podcasters rethink what audio could do. It isn’t a science show in the classroom sense — there’s no dry recitation of facts here. Instead, it’s built like a piece of music: layered sound design, sudden silences, voices that overlap and interrupt each other, […]

99% Invisible | Podcast Review

99% Invisible starts from a simple premise — most of the designed world around us goes completely unnoticed — and builds an entire show out of making the invisible visible. A single episode might explain why manhole covers are round, how a particular font shaped a country’s road signs, or why a stretch of highway […]

Radiolab | Podcast Review

99% Invisible starts from a simple premise — most of the designed world around us goes completely unnoticed — and builds an entire show out of making the invisible visible. A single episode might explain why manhole covers are round, how a particular font shaped a country’s road signs, or why a stretch of highway […]

Shedunnit | Podcast Review

If you have ever finished an Agatha Christie at 1am, put the book down, and immediately wanted to phone someone — anyone — to ask whether all those poisonings were actually pharmacologically plausible or whether the country house weekend was a real social institution or a clever bit of plot machinery, then I have very […]

Backlisted | Podcast Review

There is a very specific danger that comes with listening to Backlisted, and I think it only fair to warn you about it up front: your to-be-read pile will grow, your bookshop habit will get worse, and you will start saying things like “well, actually, Penelope Fitzgerald’s fourth novel is criminally underrated” at dinner parties. […]

The Allusionist | Podcast Review

Language is something most of us use every day without giving it a second thought. We reach for words instinctively, string them into sentences, and move on. We rarely stop to ask where those words came from, what they once meant, or what it says about us that we use them the way we do. […]